How relevant to you is the controversy over feminism?

...Ghost... wrote: »

Need to have an account to read the story. Maybe quote the text as well as having a link.

The only thing I think about when I see her name is.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcNSBksKjM

Reviews and Books Galore wrote: »

I found an old article called Twelve Books for Feminist Boys and Girls from a while ago. I was curious about versus female author earnings and it was in the list of results.

I guess its random and not really sexist, but it did get me thinking about how male and female anger is viewed.

A woman is standing up for herself and a man is bullying. A man should cry rather than get angry, and if he gets angry he should feel ashamed.

And I started to think how anger is a perfectly healthy emotion in moderation. If you have a late deadline , you get angry and finish it. If your boss is bullying you, you get angry and try to be a better ployee. If there's a sexist who thinks that women shouldn't breastfeed in public, then you get angry and don't let her (not a typo ) tell you what to do.

And I wonder could this be a link in regards to male suicide? Crying can be good, talking can be good, but sometimes its good to get angry and push through.

I don't see any reason why anger should be demonized in men vs women.

H3llR4iser wrote: »

That's next level low - look into the news, find something that could be made to fit a narrative and use it. What's absurd is the immense number of people in the comment who can't understand the problem with the way CNN and the NYT manipulated the headlines and no, it's not a case of functional illiteracy.

I haven't followed this story much (I mean the actual Kyoto Animation attack), but it looks like the perpetrator had some beef against the company for "plagiarism", or so it's been reported. He also has a previous conviction. In a nutshell no, he didn't burn down these offices because women woked in there, as it's been implied by these headlines.

iptba wrote: »

Now if scientists could only delay the manopause - when middle aged blokes discover lycra and a penchant for red sports cars - well that would be worth something.

Deleted User wrote: »

If this lady is being completely sincere, then she misses an obvious contradiction:

"We want the human species to go on, but without men."

On the other hand, I'll go with my first instinct and declare that video to be nothing more than a publicity stunt.

New ‘Monopoly’ game will pay female players more than males

iptba wrote: »

Another feminist post by RTE:

Though, I admit some of the entries on Urban Dictionary are probably not men's finest hour.

Liz Kearney: 'BBC's Wark proves positive discrimination may be best way to close gender power gap'

Greta Thunberg derangement syndrome claims another victim: Pat Kenny
The condition is triggered by exposure to a Swedish girl who doesn’t want the world to end

Another week, another on-air outbreak of Thunberg derangement syndrome. Though not yet as widespread as the more common Trump variant, which mainly afflicts US Democrats and people of moderate civility, this new condition has spread rapidly among older men, triggered by exposure to a Swedish girl who doesn’t want the world to end. With Ryan Tubridy having recently come down with a dose (albeit mild and possibly misdiagnosed), Pat Kenny has now become the latest Irish broadcaster to display telltale signs of agitation.

‘Show us your boobs and you’ll get a tip’: An Irish waitress’s life

NEW RESEARCH PAINTS A PICTURE OF WIDESPREAD SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN IRISH RESTAURANTS, CAFES AND HOTELS. HERE, PEOPLE WORKING IN THE SECTOR SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES

It’s a worldwide problem, Farrell points out. “More sexual-harassment claims in the US are filed in the restaurant industry than in any other,” she says. Surveys across 39 US states found unwanted sexual behaviour and harassment were experienced by 60 per cent of women and 46 per cent of men. In Nordic countries, too, sexual harassment is widespread in hospitality, she says.

iptba wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/business/in-the-workplace/gender-pay-gap-means-women-working-for-free-until-next-year-38679044.html

I'm not convinced.
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I found this sort of research more informative.Meanwhile, a new survey found that the gender pay gap often begins at the start of working life, given that many women set their pay expectations 10pc lower than male peers straight out of university.

The survey asked nearly 11,000 new graduates from 25 different Irish universities and colleges to specify their salary expectations.

Among those graduates with degrees in science, tech, engineering and maths (Stem) fields, the male applicants expected €37,404 while their female peers said they expected only €33,543, some 10.3pc less.

Male business and economics graduates expected to be paid €35,564 against an expectation of €33,426 among women, 6pc less.

Irishjobs.ie and employer branding firm Universum, which produced the research, said that the findings highlight an important factor driving pay differentials between men and women in many starting roles.

Senator Mulherin said the media coverage of Ms Bailey was "incessant" and she believes a man would not have received as much attention in her situation.

"I think the coverage of what has happened to her isn't proportionate or fair. This is going on since last May and it has been incessant, the coverage she's got, the abuse she's got. I seriously wonder if she was a man if she would have got it."

iptba wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/michelle-mulherin-says-maria-bailey-coverage-isnt-proportionate-or-fair-as-td-removed-from-election-ticket-964372.html

I'm not sure

Alison Bushell who runs a social work consultancy: Britain's family courts are engaged in practices that separate fathers from their children, knowingly or not, Alison believes. She says: 'The pressure groups springing up, some of which are advising the Ministry of Justice on domestic violence cases, have an anti-male agenda.' . . . 'False allegations are more prevalent than people realise and supervision orders disproportionately happen to fathers.'

'Since Office for National Statistics figures state that 40 per cent or more victims of domestic abuse are men, this is alarming.

'When will people realise that holding on to a gendered narrative in domestic abuse is harmful?'

As for gender politics, Alison admits she has performed a volte-face. 'In the 80s I spent time at Greenham Common and lived in a women-only house. I even had a badge declaring 'a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle'. How times change.

Belinda Brown, 54, is a social anthropologist and co-founder of Men For Tomorrow: She plans to continue his (her late husbands) work by exposing what she sees as a deliberate attempt by feminist activists to undermine the traditional family unit.

She writes and speaks on a range of topics concerning men for platforms such as The Conservative Woman website, and carries out research aimed at reinforcing 'traditional' values. . . . As for the future of gender relations, she has this to say: 'I hope one day soon feminism will be seen as an interesting period of history, but one which caused tremendous damage to society.'

As an anthropologist, she learned about feminism during her studies, but disagreed with much of what she heard.

'I was always aware of my own power and the power of other women,' she says. 'While I knew there were injustices which needed rectifying, today I see more injustices afflicting men.

'Most men work extremely hard to provide for their families, often at considerable cost to themselves. For women to ignore these sacrifices and instead blame men for all the problems in the world, it's divisive and damaging to gender cohesion.'

Sonia Shaljean, 49, founded award-winning community interest company, Lads Need Dads: The organisation has a team of trained male mentors, who encourage emotional intelligence in boys aged 11-15 with absent fathers. It also provides opportunities for youngsters to take part in outdoor activities, learn practical life skills and volunteer in the community.

She believes it helps to have a woman at the helm. 'If it were a man leading an all-male organisation, it could possibly be disregarded by some women.

'Our aim at Lads Need Dads is to provide support, guidance and encouragement — and a much-needed male voice to enable boys to open up.

Erin Pizzey, 80, founded women's charity Refuge. She is now a patron of the charity Families Need Fathers: 'I'm all for equality of the sexes,' Erin Pizzey says.

'But equality isn't the endgame for those feminists who believe women would be far better off without men.'

'Of the first 100 women who came into my refuge, 62 were as violent or more violent than the men they had left,' she says.

'Therefore, domestic violence can't be a gender issue, it can't be just men, because we girls are just as badly affected.'

She became a hate figure for saying so. 'They branded me a 'victim blamer'. 'After a bomb scare, the police suggested my post be sent to them for inspection.' She says: 'I am fighting for my son, my grandsons and my great grandsons, so that they might have a future where men are no longer demonised.'